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‖n. [ F. ] A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a cassette for audio tape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, besets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F., prop., a casket, dim. of casse a case. See 1st Case. ] 1. Same as Seggar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a small case to hold a removable part of some mechanism, designed for convenience in inserting and removing the working part. Most commonly referring to a tape cassette, made mostly of plastic, which holds a reel of magnetic tape for tape players or tape recorders or video cassette recorders. The term may refer, as for tape cassettes, to the integrated case plus tape, or sometimes only to the case itself separate from the contents. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ F., dim. of chemise. ] An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., dim. of crosse. See Crosier. ] (Arch.) (a) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. (b) The shoulder of a joggled keystone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of fosse a fosse. ] 1. A little hollow; hence, a dimple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. frisette curl. ] a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. glisser to slip. ] (Math.) The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. grisette a gray woolen cloth, fr. gris gray. Grisettes were so called because they wore gray gowns made of this stuff. See Gars. ] A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a member of the jet set. [ PJC ]

n. [ F., dim. of OF. muse. ] 1. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A horse used to set the pace in racing.
Syn. -- pacer, pacemaker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., pushpin, fr. pousser to push. See Push. ] A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform a certain movement in a dance. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. J. & H. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Scots Law) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resets, or sets again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of rose a rose. Cf. Roset. ] 1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A red color. See Roset. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A rose burner. See under Rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) (a) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand. (b) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mason who builds rough stonework. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See Russet. ] 1. (Zool.) A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Set; cf. Settle a seat. ] A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. scétie, scitie. ] (Naut.) A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean. [ Written also setee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are several distinct varieties of setters; as, the Irish, or red, setter; the Gordon setter, which is usually red or tan varied with black; and the English setter, which is variously colored, but usually white and tawny red, with or without black. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who hunts victims for sharpers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who adapts words to music in composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An adornment; a decoration; -- with off. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They come as . . . setters off of thy graces. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Pottery) A shallow seggar for porcelain. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus fœtidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a casette containing magnetic tape, which can be used in a videocasette recorder to record and play back electronic signals, such as from television programs. The long magnetic tape in the videocasette is moved between two spindles, and a small portion of the tape at any one time is passed over a recording or playback head. [ PJC ]

n. an electronic device which can record electronic signals, as from a television program, on magnetic tape contained in a videocassette, and can also play back the recording. It is used, for example, to record television programs broadcast at some particular time, which can then be viewed at any subsequent time by attaching the videocasette recorder to a television receiver and playing the signals throught the television receiver. Also called VCR. [ PJC ]